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elementality — ghosts of the outback
Published: 2004-08-28 04:46:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 696; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 243
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An isolated billabong in the middle of the Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia. The main tree in the photo is the Ghost Gum, aptly named for its stark white bark. In the water you can see the faces of dozens of lost souls...Photoshop:
IR Filter
Border/Frame
Colour Balance Adjustment
Contrast Adjustment
// sony cybershot dsc-P10
aperture F5.6
shutter 400th
iso 100
exp compensation -1
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Comments: 113
Billabong:
1. A streambed filled with water only in the rainy season.
2 . A stagnant pool or backwater.
They're pretty common in outback Australia
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Sorry, I live in Northeast Florida. *laugh* The closest we have to that is the swamp in my backyard from the hurricanes.
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Incredible shot. I very much like the use of IF filter...What inspired you to use it? Very, very well done.
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Thank you very much! The IR filter was just experimentation, I didn't really plan for it to come out this way
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Wow. That's a really nice shot. I love the sky, and the colors. The whole image gives off a great sort of "glow" which is really nice.
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wow, this is such a beautiful piece of work! it looks so surreal it doesn't seem like a photo! composition, lighting, the tomes in this shot are just perfect. i'll have to fave this...
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Beautiful! You always know how to capture great wildlife/nature scenes... I actually think ghost gums are quite cool, being a bright white and all... Very nice, it looks effective in black and white too!
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I'm absolutly amazed by all of your pictures.
wow.
They're awsome.
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thank you very much! 
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This is the first excellent IR shot I have seen of the Outback!
For that it deserves a
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thank you very much!
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great shot... i love the colours and the entire supernatural feeling the picture provoked!! very niceE!
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.... elem.... will you ever seize to impress me? seriously, this is beautiful.
i don't know how you did that but i love the way the whiteness is emphasized like a polarized picture tho it isn't really polarized is it?
great description too
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thats a truly amazing photo! indeed very ghostly
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thank you very much!
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I like the tree and the shot and all of that but something about the glowing silver lining on everything is a bit much. Was it in the original shot or did you add that with an effect.
Love, Libby
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the silver lining is just some side effects from adding the IR filter in ps... i know, it detracts from the photo 
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Awesome clarity. You can see even the smallest detail. I like the use of thei IR filter on this one.
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you can get IR filter on photoshop?
amazing shot
so gorgeous
i want this on my wall
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hehe you cant get an IR filter for photoshop, but you can mimick its effects in ps
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there is a really good tutorial on how to do this at *photo-class , it will tell you how to do it
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This is really fantastic. I first saw it and and I did a double-take on the wonderful color. I really can't find constructive words to form about the style, because it is great. So I will stop babbling and just 
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thank you very much!
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